Industrial culture path Limmat - moated castle
The industrial culture trail Limmat – Wasserschloss is a hiking trail that connects buildings and bridges of industrial history on the Limmat in the Swiss canton of Aargau . The route leads from Wettingen via Baden , Turgi and Windisch to Brugg . Along the way there are former textile factories, railway bridges and other buildings from the history of the railway, power plants and other, mostly former industrial companies.
The way
The industrial culture trail is divided into five stages, each starting at a train station. The buildings, which are of interest in industrial history, are explained on information boards. There are also signs indicating buildings that have already been demolished. In the Baden – Wettingen– Neuenhof region , the industrial culture trail runs partially parallel to the Baden – Wettingen – Neuenhof cultural trail .
The first stage
The first stage begins at Wettingen train station and leads from there, mostly along the Limmat to Neuenhof with the Webermühle and to the Wettinger monastery peninsula. Among other things, you can see:
- Wettingen train station
- Limmatwerk Wettingen
- Fish pass at Wettingen power station
- Upper Limmat Bridge Neuenhof-Wettingen
- Wettingen-Neuenhof wooden bridge
- Wettingen cotton spinning and weaving mill
- Former weaving mill in Damsau
- Baden slaughterhouse
- Lower Limmat Bridge Wettingen-Baden
The second stage
The second stage begins at Baden train station and leads towards Ennetbaden .
- Baden railway station
- Traffic rehabilitation in Baden
- Villa Boveri
- Former Aue spinning mill and power plant
- Baden high bridge
- Baden wooden bridge
- Former Streule tannery and leather goods factory
- Former Diebold and Wegmann factories
- Foundry and fittings factory in Oederlin
- Former Baden gas works
- Kappelerhof power plant
The third stage
The third stage primarily reveals the history of the former Brown, Boveri & Cie. (today ABB ) in Baden North.
- Former Merker metal goods factory
- Müller Brewery
- Municipal Works Baden
- ABB area (with three locations)
- Villa Langmatt
- Motor-Columbus
- Northeast Swiss power plants
The fourth stage
The fourth stage starts at Turgi train station and leads to Vogelsang and Untersiggenthal .
- Turgi train station
- Former metal goods factory Straub-Egloff
- Ludwig Chapel with private cemetery
- Shipmill factory and power plant
- Power plant and former spinning mills in Turgi
- Workers 'and factory owners' houses in Turgi
- Turgi – Untersiggenthal railway bridge
- Stroppel factory and power station
- Factory plant BAG Turgi and power plant Gebenstorf
The fifth stage
The fifth stage shows the industrial buildings in the Brugg-Windisch region.
- Vogelsang – Windisch railway bridge
- Brugg train station
- Factory plant cable works Brugg
- Kunz spinning mill
- Brugg gasworks
- Former Brugg power station
- Brugg – Umiken railway bridge
